egorodet commented 3 years ago

Methane Kit v0.5 Pre-Release Update 5

Common libraries:
- Replaced CML math library with HLSL++ to improve math performance with SSE/AVX/NEON vector-instructions (close #78).
- Replaced UnexpectedEnumArgumentException with UnexpectedArgumentException applicable to different types. Check macros was renamed accordingly from META_UNEXPECTED_ENUM_ARG_* to META_UNEXPECTED_ARG_*.
- Removed const modifiers from exception members to enable generation of move constructors.
Data libraries:
- RawVector template class was added as a replacement of cml::vector for dense-packed components storage used in vertex attributes.
- Point template class now use underlying HLSL++ vector; multiplication/division operators were fixed.
- Rect and RectSize, Volume and VolumeSize classes were refactored. Made class fields private, available through accessors.
- Constants template class was added with math constants.
Graphics libraries:
- Color template class was rewritten from scratch and now can use both integer and floating point components via underlying HLSL++ vector storage.
- ArcBallCamera issues were found by improved unit-tests and fixed.
- SphereMesh generation was simplified with matrix-free implementation.
- Fixed missing debug names of graphics resources (regression of previous refactoring).
- Fixed mip-levels count in depth texture descriptor for DirectX12.
- Fixed limited rendering FPS with VSync turned OFF on Nvidia GPUs with latest drivers (Jan 2021).
- Enabled naming of Tracy GPU contexts (unforturnately, now it works only when TRACY_ON_DEMAN is disabled).
Unit-tests coverage was expanded from 5.7% to 13%:
- RawVector, Point new template classes were covered with unit-tests.
- Rect and RectSize, Volume and VolumeSize existing template classes were covered with unit-tests.
- Color template class was covered with unit-tests.
- UnitType template class was covered with unit tests.
- UserInterface::Context class unit convertors were covered with unit tests.
- FakeRenderContext class was added to UI unit-testing infrastructure.
- Replace deprecated ParseAndAddCatchTests CMake function with catch_discover_tests to fix Catch warnings.
External libraries:
- HLSL++ library was added
- CML library was removed
- Catch2 was updated to v2.13.4
- Tracy was updated to v0.7.6
- CLI11 library was updated to v1.9.1
- CMRC library was updated to latest version.
- FMT library was updated to v7.1.3
- Taskflow library was updated to v3.0.0
Samples and tutorials:
- Migrated tutorials and samples to using HLSL++ vector math, used instead of CML.
- Removed explicit alignment of uniform structure fields, which is not required anymore for HLSL++ types, since they already use 16-bytes aligned data storage.
- Updated tutorials documentation to reflect code changes.
Build Infrastructure:
- Do not fail build when some unit tests fail or Sonar Scanner jobs fail with error.
- Publish Sonar Scanner error reproducer to build artifacts in case of scan failure.
- Fix Sonar Scanner cache invalidation by adding plugin version to cache key.